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Tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson's brilliant Power To The People was recorded in 1969, when jazz musicians were confronting the influence of rock and soul. Some had trouble, but Henderson wrote tunes that always sneaked a step or two beyond convention.

Singer-songwriter Brian Carpenter has cited places like Coney Island and the Florida Panhandle as inspiration for his work. On his latest album, Hothouse Stomp, Carpenter musically travels back to the jazz scene in 1920s Harlem and Chicago.

T.C. Boyle is the author of 15 books, including Drop City, nominated for a National Book Award last year. Boyle's fiction is known for its wit, biting satire, historical sweep and verbal pyrotechnics. For Intersections, a Morning Edition series on artists and their influences, Boyle says his literary reputation owes much to rock 'n' roll.

The jazz pianist's latest album with his go-go backing band features a powerful song he wrote in tribute to the young Baltimore man who died in 2015 of injuries sustained in police custody.

"Django" was The Modern Jazz Quartet's biggest hit. The album of the same name exemplifies the band's divergent style, incorporating elements of bop, classical music, and the cool jazz movement. Listen for John Lewis' use of baroque fugues in the album's eclectic tracks.

E.S.T.'s Esbjorn Svensson, who died June 16, blurred the line between jazz and classical music, sometimes even leaping over both genres. Here, the forward-thinking group plays a three-song set at the North Sea Jazz Festival, recorded by Radio Netherlands, with guitarist Anton Goudsmit's Latin-influenced Ploctones opening.

The Argentine composer and pianist's new record follows in, then reorients, the footprints of Gustavo "Cuchi" Leguizamón, a fellow idiosyncratic folk-music stylist. As with all of Klein's music, there's engaging, creative jazz in it -- somewhere. Hear Domador de Huellas in its entirety until its release on Aug. 10.

Glenn Miller's "In the Mood," Edward R. Murrow's wartime broadcasts from London and Public Enemy's influential hip-hop album Fear of a Black Planet are among the recordings added to the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry.

Steel pedal guitarist Paul Franklin set a CMA record as a 32-time nominee for Musician of the Year. Will this year be different?

Nels Cline brought his free-jazz trio, The Nels Cline Singers (which includes no singers), to this Piano Jazz session with guest host Jon Weber. Hear a set of richly layered free improvisations and a familiar tune or two.